Capt Alfred J. Sofield Post 

No, 49, Or, A. R,, Department of Pennsylvania. 



OSC EO LA 



IN THE 



War of the Rebellion. 



AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT OSCEOLA, TIOGA COUNTY, 
PA., ON FRIDAY, MAY 30th, 1884, BY 



Hon. Charles Tubbs. 



To which is appended an Historical Sketch of the Post, and 
the Service Record of its Members. 



COMPILED BY 0. S. KIMBALL, POST ADJUTANT. 



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ALFRED J. SOFIELD POST, NO. 49, G. A. R., 

DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, 



OSCEOLA 



IN THE 



War of the Rebellion. 



AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT OSCEOLA, TIOGA COUNTY, 
PA., ON FRIDAY, MAY 30th, ,884, BY 



Hon, Charles Tubbs. 

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To which is appended an Historical Sketch of the Post, and 
the Service Record of its Members. 



COMPILED BY 0. S. KIMBALL, POST ADJUTANT. 



Agitator Book and Job Print, 
Wellsboro, Pa. 



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Preface, 



Hon. Charles Tubbs : — Dear Sir: — At a regular meeting of Alfred 
J. Sofield Post, No. 49, Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R.,held in G. 
A. R. hall, Osceola, Pa., June 24th, 1884, it was unanimously resolved 
that a committee of three be appointed to confer with you and request of 
you a copy of your address delivered at this place last Memorial Day, May 
30th, 1884, with permission to publish the same. We, whose names 
appear below, were appointed as such committee. We therefore address 
to you this communication, asking a copy of your most excellent address, 
believing that our comrades and many others would very much desire to 
have a copy for future reference; embracing, as it does, a history of the 
volunteers of Osceola township (now borough) in its defense of our glorious 
Union, when traitorous hands were lifted against the flag of our country. 

Hoping to receive a favorable reply to this, our request, we are, with 

respect, your humble servants. 

O. S. KIMBALL, 

S. D. BAXTER, 

AUGUSTUS CADUGAN. 



Gentlemen : — Your polite request for a copy of my Memorial Day 
address is received. I comply therewith by placing it in your hands. In 
doing so permit me to make acknowledgment of the assistance I have 
received from surviving soldiers, and friends of those deceased, in furnish- 
ing me with such facts as they possessed. 

In preparing the following pages I have gone through many files of 
old letters, examined the faded leaves of war diaries, written in camp with 



4 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

the scant facilities at hand, and taken full notes of oral statements of 
surviving veterans. In obtaining the latter I have traveled many miles in 
making personal visits. I have also conducted, during the past year, an 
extensive correspondence with those who live at a considerable distance 
from the town they served. Twenty years have scattered the families of 
the volunteers far and wide. 

I have also consulted Bates' " Pennsylvania Volunteers," Sypher's 
" History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps," several printed company 
charts, and a complete file of the Agitator, to which I was courteously given 
access by the County Commissioners and their clerk. 

My thanks are also due to Hon. John I. Mitchell, of the United States 
Senate; Jerome B. Potter, Esq., clerk of the Senate Pension Committee, 
and to the Honorable Presly N. Guthrie, Adjutant-General of Pennsyl- 
vania, for their strenuous efforts to place at my disposal the enrollment 
records of Osceola, now in possession of the War Department at Washing- 
ton. That these efforts were of no avail is matter of regret. 

I have endeavored to examine every source of information and to 
make an accurate statement of the facts. I cannot indulge the hope 
that I have entirely succeeded. There are some conflicting accounts and 
almost an entire absence of the usual township records of the important 
local events herein detailed. I believe, however, that the main statements 
are correct, and in this belief present them to you. 

Very respectfully, 

CHARLES TUBBS. 
To Messrs. Kimball, Baxter and Cadugan. 




ADDRESS. 



Mr. Commander — Ladies and Gentlemen: 

By our .custom we turn away from the business of 
life, and devote this day to the decoration of the graves 
of the dead. It is a solemn festival. It is intended to 
renew and refresh our recollection of the service per- 
formed by our citizen soldiery in defense of the union 
of the States. 

It is now twenty-three years since the war began 
and nineteen since it closed, and many men who are 
now in the midst of an active business career, and many 
women who are now mothers of families have slight 
personal knowledge of the dark and dreary months 
that made up those four years of cruel civil war. Occu- 
pied with the cares and perplexities of to day we are 
beginning to regard it as among those shadowy and 
distant events which constitute the world's history. 
The number to whom this anniversary brings personal 
recollections of events which then transpired is growing 
smaller year by year, and the memory of the sacrifices 
then made by our people for home and country is 
growing more faint as time goes by. 

To keep alive these memories, the society under 
whose auspices we are gathered to-day has been formed. 
Although a secret order, one of its avowed objects is 
" to perpetuate the memory and history of the dead." 
We heartily commend its aim and shall endeavor to 
further its object. 

We believe it is due to the men who rendered honor- 
able and patriotic service for their country that the 
story of it should be rehearsed, and that some record 



6 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

of it should be preserved. It is no less due to the credit 
of the town that so important a feature of its history 
should be sketched while some, at least, of the materials 
for it are within our reach. 

In doing this we shall not devote our time to a gen- 
eral history of the war, to the political causes which 
brought it about, nor in describing the movements of 
the great armies in their various campaigns. On the 
other hand, our self-imposed task shall be to gather up, 
so far as possible, from the fleeting memories of individ- 
uals and the vanishing records of the time such 
mementoes as now exist of the part taken in the late 
contest by men from Osceola. Ordinarily the pages of 
history mention only the names of those who exercise 
the functions of some office, or in describing military 
events, of those who are in high command. We assume 
the more humble task of depicting the services of our 
citizens at home, and of our soldiers in the field, during 
a trying period of our national existence. We trust it 
will not seem out of keeping with a due observance of 
this day, to make mention of the actions of the living 
as well as the part taken in these events by the dead. 

"Love for the living martyrs of the land, 
And garlands for the dead, go hand in hand." 

Friends and neighbors from adjoining towns, if 
such there be with us to-day. we welcome you to this 
open camp-fire of the Sofield Post. We trust that the 
story of what Osceola did to subdue the great Rebellion 
will not be unwelcome on this occasion. We know 
that your communities did as well as ours, and we hope 
at some future day to sit down with you while some 
citizen of your own w r orthily relates what was done 
within your town or borough in war time. 

Our late civil war was the first in which any person 
born on our own soil had taken part. It is true that 
Nathaniel P. Moody, David Jay, Reuben Cook, the 
elder, and Samuel Tubbs, senior, who had been soldiers 
of the Revolutionary war came here forspend the declin- 
ing years of their lives ; and some of them lie buried 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 7 

within these consecrated grounds. But they had ren- 
dered their services years before their settlement here, 
and while our territory had not a single white inhab- 
itant. 

It is also true that at a later period in our history 
David Taylor, Andrew Bozzard, Reuben Cook, the 
younger, and Samuel Tubbs, junior, volunteered their 
services in the war of 1812, but, while the} 7 spent some 
weeks in camp, they were not called upon to perform 
any active duty in the field. They only exhibited their 
patriotic desire to serve their country in case of need. 

It is also true that George Henry Gee, a young man 
living upon territory now within the limits of this 
borough, accompanied the army of General Taylor in 
his campaign in Mexico, but not in the capacity of a 
soldier. No enlisted man from our town served in 
either of the two regiments that Pennsylvania sent as 
its contingent to that invasion. 

For the first time, therefore, since the settlement of 
our valley and of this town we are to tell the story of 
how our people demeaned themselves when grim- 
visaged war looked in at our homes and about our 
hearth-stones for the victims for the sacrifice. 

Before entering into the details of this history go 
back with me to the beginning of the Rebellion. Let 
us examine the situation in this township. The census 
of 1860 — then recently taken— credits us with having 
a population of but 450 souls. In reckoning our quota 
of soldiers, in describing our contributions to the prose- 
cution of the war and in estimating what was here 
done for the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, this 
fact must be borne in mind. Our population to-day is 
twice that number. In 1863 our tax list exhibited 102 
names and in 1864 just 100 — comprising alike the 
young, the middle aged, and the old. Some addition 
has, however, been made in the meantime to our terri- 
tory. In 1878 we enlarged our boundaries by taking 
in a portion of Deerfield township, the exact number of 
whose population we have no means of ascertaining, 
although it was not large. As this territory is now a 



8 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

portion of our borough we have incorporated in this 
address such facts of its war history as have come to 
our knowledge. 

The changed circumstances under which we live 
must also be regarded. We had not then, as now, two 
railroads passing through our territory, with their 
thronging trains laden with passengers and freights, 
communicating almost hourly with the great world 
without. The telegraph lines which traverse our val- 
ley, spreading their unsightly net-work of wire along 
uur highways and thoroughfares, and over which the 
intelligence of distant events passes with the rapidity 
of lightning did not then exist. The telephone, that 
latest marvel of electrical science for the transmission 
of the news of the world, which now has its rattling 
bells in various offices of our village, had not then been 
invented. Other places had the railroad and telegraph 
— we were isolated among our hills, and our means of 
communication were limited. Our nearest railroad 
stations and telegraph offices were twelve miles away — 
upon the Erie at Addison, N. Y., or at Lawrenceville 
upon the Tioga. 

In war time, for news of the important events then 
transpiring, we depended upon the stage coach carry- 
ing the United States mail, which each day rumbled 
through the dust or struggled through the mud of the 
Cowanesque Valley on its way from Addison to West- 
field. The great battles were usually heralded by a tel- 
egram brought by some teamster or some traveler in 
advance of the stage, which in vague and indistinct 
terms outlined a victory or a defeat to our arms. But 
after a painful suspense the definite news of the event, 
whatever it might be, came by mail in the Daily 
Tribune, thirty-six hours after its publication in New 
York. 

Professor Anderson Robert Wightman, in a letter 
dated Tecumseh, Nebraska, February 9, 1884, gives the 
following description of a scene that will be familiar to 
many who read these pages: 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 9 

"No sooner had the Addison stage left the mail- 
pouch at the post-office (kept in those days by Dr. 
Henry C. Bosworth) than a large part of the male popu- 
lation of Osceola assembled en masse at the store, and 
listened while Russel Crandall or Andrew K. Bosard 
read al°>ud from the Tribune or World the latest news 
" from the seat of war." This was while the World was 
accepted authority and before it became a rebel sheet. 
No paper like the World with A. K. Bosard then. Af- 
ter the reading the military men of the town would 
explain the situation, criticising the leaders of the war 
—show who had blundered and just what ought to be 
done." 

Upon us thus located, thus situated, thus circum- 
stanced, the war came. Premonitions of its coming 
had not been wanting, but they had fallen upon deaf 
ears. We believed all the warnings to be Southern 
bluster and bravado, which would pass away without 
result, as such idle vaporings had in the past. Not so 
this time. The iron hail that rained on Sumter and 
the President's call for 75,000 men aroused our quiet 
hamlet to a realization of the fact that war had come. 
We were totally unprepared for it. The old military 
system under which all our able bodied citizens had 
been organized into companies and drilled in military 
tactics had fallen into disuse. A dozen years before 
the outbreak of the war, the May trainings had become 
a farce and had ceased altogether. Neither was there 
among us any great familiarity with the use of fire- 
arms. The times when every man was as handy in 
the use of a rifle as an axe had passed away. 

THE MUSTERING. 

After the fall of Fort Sumter the first public pat- 
riotic expression in our midst came from the students 
of the Osceola High School, then in the height of its 
prosperity. The young men in attendance at the 
school and some citizens of the town purchased mate- 
rial, and the nimble fingers of the young women man- 
ufactured therefrom a United States flag. The national 



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emblem! It had been assailed, fired at, struck down. 
For the first time in our lives we were brought to con- 
template how much it meant to us — how much of pro- 
tection to life and property and all we held dear. The 
students erected a pole tw T enty feet high upon the 
cupola of the High School building, and the stars and 
stripes were run up amid great cheering. 

A meeting of citizens and students followed, over 
which Anderson Robert Wightman, Principal of the 
High School, presided. Professor Wightman writes of 
this meeting in a recent letter, saying that " Professor 
Samuel Richard Thayer, leaning on his umbrella (as 
was his wont), made a speech, full of patriotism. He 
was teaching ' Cicero ' at the time, and his speech was 
modeled after 'Quousque taw I em abutere patentia no?tr<i.' " 
This meeting was held on the 23d of April, 1861. The 
same week sixteen volunteers left Osceola in response 
to the President's call for men to serve three months. 
Their indignation was hot and they burned to avenge 
the insult offered the old flag. They were: 

William Thomas Humphrey, Edwin Tyler Bruce, 

David Bruce, Uriah Brimmer, 

Henry 0. Cole, John Finch, 

Andrew Godfrey, George Henry Gee, 

John Hawe, Lewis Campbell Lewis, 

Hugh Joseph Magee, Henry Odell, 

William E. Pierson, Samuel Stevens, 
William Edward Self. 

William T. Humphrey circulated the enlistment 
paper and was active in prosecuting the patriotic move- 
ment. 

These men went in wagons to Lawrenceville, and 
there were organized into a company, with other men 
enrolled along the valley. They designated their com- 
pany the "Anderson Life Guards," in compliment to 
Major Anderson, who had recently defended Fort 
Sumter. They elected Philip Holland Captain. They 
proceeded to Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, and found 
that the quota of Pennsylvania was full and that their 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. n 

offer of service for three months could not be accepted 
under the President's call. What should be done? 
Should they return home? They did not thus incline 
to do. Governor Curtin encouraged them to remain in 
camp. He foresaw that the war was not to be one of 
ninety days' duration only. He convened the legisla- 
ture of our State in extraordinary session on the 30th 
of April, and upon his recommendation in due time it 
authorized the organization of fifteen regiments for the 
defense of the State. These regiments formed the cel- 
ebrated Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. During these 
preliminaries a month had elapsed — the. first month in 
camp — a month of ennui, suspense, uncertainty and 
delay. Some of our men became discouraged with the 
apparent do-nothing policy and returned to their homes. 
Those who remained in spite of all these rebuffs were 
finally mustered into company A, 13th regiment Penn- 
sylvania reserve corps. The peculiar badge of this reg- 
iment was a buck tail, which each man wore conspicu- 
ously in his hat. It was a rifle regiment, and from the 
beginning to the end of the war it was the most distin- 
guished in the whole army — Greeley gives it special 
mention, Sypher devotes pages to the record of its valor, 
and Bates, in his history, says: " It was known through- 
out the world where the record of our great warfare was 
read." As was anticipated, their service for the State 
was of short duration. June 11, 1861, they were mus- 
tered into the U. S. army, becoming the Forty-second 
Regiment of the Pennsylvania line. 

THE BUCKTAILS. 

Who, on that day, from this town, stood in the ranks 
of company A when the Orderly-Sergeant cried out, 
"Fall in." Let us call the roll. 
*Uriah Brimmer, Edwin Tyler Bruce, 

Andrew Godfrey, George Henry Gee, 

fJohn Hawe, Lewis Campbell Lewis, 



^Discharged for disability on Surgeon's certificate December 9, 1861. 
j-Discharged for disability on Surgeon's certificate May 18, 1862. 



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§Hugh Joseph Magee, Henry Odell, 

Samuel Stevens, William Edward Self, 

William Thomas Humphrey, M. D., Assistant Surgeon 
of the regiment. 

% James Vastbinder also enlisted in this company on 
the 21st of the following August. 

From this day forward the record of their service 
was a brilliant one, and in the limits of this address we 
can but glance along the pathway of their marches, 
and catch a glimpse of their trusty rifles as they appear 
upon the skirmish line or bear the brunt of the 
enemy's charging column. 

In July, 1861, they were engaged in skirmishes at 
New Creek and Piedmont, Va., and December 20th were 
prominent in the battle of Dranesville. They went 
into winter quarters at Camp Pierrepont, in front of 
Manasses. 

In 1862 they were engaged in the Peninsula Cam- 
paign, under Gen. McClellan, and suffered severely. 
Let a private soldier fr^m this town tell the story. I 
quote from a letter written by William Edward Self, 
dated, "Camp on James River, 17 miles from Rich- 
mond, July 22, 1862." He says: "We were in camp 
near Mechanicsburg June 26th. About 2 P. M. the 
enemy appeared in town with artillery and the battle 
began, and from chat time until 7 P. M. it was a steady 
roar, like the ocean. When our artillery opened a 
rebel brigade came out cheering and yelling, thinking 
to turn our right. Fifteen rods in front of us was a 
swamp. We opened on them with our rifles in front, 
while our artillery poured grape and canister into them 
on our left. Of the rebel brigade I do not believe 100 
escaped alive. The swamp was full of their killed and 
wounded. We mowed them down like grass. We 
remained in the rifle-pits during the night. Our whole 



^Discharged for disability on Surgeon's certificate December g, 1861. 

^Wounded in arm at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862, and 
in shoulder at Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 12, 1864. Re-enlisted 
as veteran volunteer. 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 13 

division retreated, leaving us to cover the retreat. We 
held them in check two hours and then retreated across 
an open field in full range of their guns, to Gaines' Mill, 
Three of our company were killed and it is strange that 
one of us got away alive. In the fight on the 30th, at 
Charles City Cross Roads, I should think the rebels had 
ten to our one. It seems the fighting occurred when 
our generals least expected it." 

Surgeon Humphrey writes from Harrison's Land- 
ing July 12, 1862, that: "It is known that our success 
in keeping the enemy in check at Gaines' Mill saved 
our entire army — prevented the flanking movement, 
and breaking through our lines." 

On the 29th and 30th of August they were engaged 
in the second battle of Bull Run. In this campaign 
our company had no rations for five days, and much of 
the time were without water. September 14th they 
were at South Mountain, with a loss of four wounded, 
and on the 16th participated in the battle of Antietam, 
where they charged the enemy in front of the Dunkard 
church, losing their Colonel, Hugh W. M'Neil, and 
many men. December 13th they were engaged at 
Fredericksburg. Private Self writes concerning the 
battle: "I never saw the tuck took out of our reg- 
iment as it was here — cut up before we had a chance to 
return the fire." It was on the left under Franklin. 
They spent the winter at Falmouth and in the defenses 
of Washington. 

In 1863 they were at Gettysburg and the same 
letter writer tells the part our boys took in the contest. 
" We traveled nights and made forced marches to get 
there. We arrived on the afternoon of July 2, unslung 
our things and were ordered in. The rebels were driv- 
ing the 2nd division from Round Top and were up to 
the mouths of our cannon. We charged down upon 
them, when they cried out, "Here come the Bucktails," 
and turned and fled or threw down their arms and 
surrendered. Our Colonel, Charles Frederick Taylor, 
was killed in the charge. Had we been three minutes 
later they would have captured our cannon and swept 



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our army from Round Top." They joined in pursuit 
of the Rebels back into Virginia and finally went into 
winter quarters at Bristoe Station. While at this camp 
they exchanged their Sharp's rifles for Spencer's seven 
shooters and with them entered upon the next cam- 
paign. 

In 1864 they participated in all of the battles in the 
Wilderness, beginning on the 5th of May at Parker's 
Store and the Lacey Plouse and from thence fought at 
Spottsylvania, the North Anna and Bethesda Church, 
which was the last battle of the Reserve Corps, as such. 

The three years for which the company had enlisted 
expired at this time, but most of the men had re- 
enlisted and we will briefly follow their fortunes, as 
they re-appear as Company A, 190th P. V. 

Their first battle in the new organization was Cold 
Harbor. On the 17th of June they arrived in front of 
Petersburg, and were on the skirmish line continually 
until the 23d. August 18th they participated in the 
raid along the Weldon railroad, in which a large por- 
tion of the regiment was made prisoners of war, includ- 
ing Andrew Godfrey of this town. 

In 1865 those that were left took part in the battle 
of Five Forks and the last battle of the Army of the 
Potomac at Appomattox Court House. We quote an 
account of this written by a member of the regiment, 
as follows: "About noon on the ninth of April we got 
the order, ' Bucktails to the front — double quick, 
march,' and away we went, past our own division, past 
the first division, past the advance, out into an open 
field. 'Battalion into line — deploy as skirmishers — 
forward — double quick — march " rang along the line. 
The order seems to ring in my ears now. Away we 
went. Sheridan's cavalry was just coming out as we 
went in. Soon we got sight of the rebels and they of 
us. We advanced double quick and they fell back. 
They opened on us with a battery from the brow of a 
hill, first with shells and as we got closer with canister, 
and just as we were about charging on the battery, up 
over the brow of the hill in front came a horseman, 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 15 



then another, and another. The first bore a white flag. 
"Cease firing," " Cease firing," was the order, and the 
rider bearing it passed down through the lines. "They 
have surrendered, they have surrendered" was repeated 
from man to man until the whole army knew the glad 
tidings, and cheer after cheer rent the air. The glad 
hour for which we had been battling for four long 
years had come." 

It was the supreme moment of the war. Out upon 
that skirmish line were two men from Osceola — William 
Edward Self and Hugh Joseph Magee. They were all 
that the vicissitudes of war had left in the organization 
of the twelve men who left this little town in April, 
1861. Magee was on the picket line and Self was one 
of the men who stood guard at the meeting of the great 
commanders when Lee laid down his sword to Grant 
under the famous apple tree. After the surrender they 
returned to the neighborhood of Washington and on 
the 28th of June were mustered out of the service. Since 
their enlistment they had marched over 1,200 miles 
and engaged the enemy in battle and skirmish twenty- 
nine times. 

COMPANY L, SECOND CAVALRY. 

We have thus briefly passed in review the war 
record of one body of men. They enlisted in the first 
flush of the fiery indignation at the insult offered the 
old flag. Bull Run came in due time and chilled the 
ardor of our hopes, and the President called for more 
men — for three years this time. Thir was war in 
earnest — no pretense this time that it would be over in 
sixty days. Who would now answer the call ? What 
would the response of Osceola be? We shall see. It 
answered with fifteen men. They were : 
1 1 Daniel Bacon, § Jerome Bates, 



||Was a student at the High School at the time of his enlistment. Was 
Hospital Steward, from which rank he was promoted to Second Lieutenant 
November 1st, 1862. 

fWounded in leg June 24th, 1864, near Charles City Court House, 
Va. ( St. Mary's church.) 



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Andrew Jackson Butler, Henry 0. Cole, 

John Finch, *Lloyd Freeborn, 

Almon Bennett Giffbrd, fGeorge Hessham, 

Thomas Johnson, Eli Mead, 

John Haynes Newman, William E. Pierson, 

^George Reeves, lAsahel Booth Porter, 
Charles Ryon Taylor. 

They were enlisted by Robert Thomas Wood, of 
Elkland, and Charles Ryon Taylor. These men, with 
others from the valley, rendezvoused at Elkland and 
organized by electing R. T. Wood Captain, and C. R. 
Taylor First-Lieutenant. This company was mustered 
into the service of the United States October 19th, 1861, 
as Company L, 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry, being the 
59th regiment in the line. The winter of 1861-2 was 
spent in a camp of instruction at Philadelphia. Capt. 
Wood commanded this company about one year and 
then resigned his commission, whereupon Chas. R. Tay- 
lor was promoted to the Captaincy Nov. 1, 1862. In or- 
der to be in the command of Captain Taylor and at the 
same time to enjoy the companionship of friends and 
neighbors, many of the men who subsequently enlisted 
from Osceola joined this company, so that from first to 
last about one-h*alf of the men who served from this 
town in the army during the Rebellion were carried 



* Transferred in 1863 to Vet. Reserve Corps on account of hernia. 
In that corps he served until the close of the war. 

•{•Wounded in leg December 28th, 1862, near Dumfries, Va., and 
discharged on account of disability arising therefrom August 24th, 1863, at 
Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

^Discharged for loss of voice in 1862. He was an Englishman. He 
was a tailor, and worked many years at that trade in Osceola. 

^[Asahel Booth Porter was a clock-tinker, going from house to house 
through the village at the time of the enlistment of this company. He was 
lame in one leg and it was evident he could not pass the Surgeon's 
examination. Another man was examined in his place — a proceeding at 
which the officers winked — and Porter was mustered in. He endured the 
service with perfect hardihood, and in due time was promoted to Hospital 
Steward, in which capacity he served out the term of his enlistment. 



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on its roll. The following is a list of these recruits, 
with the date of their muster in : 



February 9, 1862. 



July 1, 1862. 
December 13, 1863. 



Uriah Brimmer, 

*Hiram Green, 

John Hawe, 

George Newman, 

tLuke Winfield Scott, 

Charles Wesley Barnhart, February 24, 1864. 

Jacob Bullen, 

Horace Quincy Cilley, 

JJames Conner, 

Egbert Cook, 

Aaron Finch, 

Miles Finch, % 

Aaron Thompson Hathaway, 

TfThomas Jenkins, 

Robert Long, 

George Washington Newman, 

Thomas O'Conner, 

§Richard Odell, 

Myron I). Stewart, 

Thomas VanSise, 

Soloman VanZile, 

HWilliam R. Wells, 

After the preparation of drill and camp life which 
they had undergone during the previous winter and 
spring at Philadelphia and on Capitol Hill at Wash- 



*Discharged for hernia. 

f Wounded in hand at Rocky Run, Va., July 23, 1864, while on de- 
tached duty. 

J James Conner was born near Richmond, Va., and early in the war 
went out with Maj. Taylor, of the rebel Gen. Mahone's staff. He was 
captured Angust 16, 1862, near Aldine, Va., by Capt. C. R. Taylor, by 
whom he was afterward employed as hostler, &c. In 1864 he accom- 
panied Captain Taylor on a visit home, when he enlisted in the Union 
service, accepted the bounty paid by Osceola and was accredited upon her 
quota. 

$ Discharged for disability in August, 1864, on Surgeon's certificate. 

|| Wounded in both leg and arm. 

^Wounded seriously in arm near Charles City Court House (St. 
Mary's church), June 24, 1864. 



1 8 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

ington, on June 27th they crossed Long Bridge and 
advanced into Virginia. During the second battle of 
Bull Run they were continually scouting and skir- 
mishing and feeling the enemy, which is the peculiar 
province and duty of the cavalry. On the night of 
August 30th the regiment held Stone Bridge on the 
Centerville road. 

December 28th, Captain Chauncey in command, 
with 150 men, including a detachment of Captain Tay- 
lor's company, crossed the Occoquan river near Dum- 
fries, Va.,and fell into an ambuscade of 3000 rebels, un- 
der the command of Wade Hampton. As our company 
had no more lively fighting during the term of their 
enlistment, we will quote an account of it given by 
Captain Taylor at the time in a letter dated Accotink, 
January 1st, 1863. It is as follows : "I had fifteen of 
my company with me, having left the rest to guard the 
ferry. When the rebels first fired upon us they were 
in an ambush in the woods. Our forces were thrown 
into disorder. The rebels charged me with two platoons 
and sabred my men down. We had to dash our pistols 
into their faces and cut our way out, as we were sur- 
rounded. I formed the men I had left opposite a fence. 
They charged over the fence and I was then cut off 
from the column, and every man had to take care of 
himself as best he could. I had four of my men with 
me. We were chased by about fifty Confederates. The 
bullets fell like hail. After they expended their am- 
munition we turned upon them and killed two horses 
and drove the rest back to the woods where the battle 
began. We hitched our horses and loaded our pistols. 
I had no idea of ever getting out, and thought we ' 
would sell our lives as dearly as possible. We laid 
there all that day and night and the next day until the 
rebels moved off. We then came in. My men fought 
with great bravery. John Hawe, Jerome Bates and 
George Heysham are taken prisoners. Bates and Heys- 
ham are also seriously wounded." The prisoners were 
all from Osceola. After enduring great hardships of 
hunger and fatigue, to the point of exhaustion, during 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OE THE REBELLION. 19 

forced marches, they arrived at Richmond and were 
confined in Libby prison and Castle Thunder amid 
their filth and vermin. 

It passes our power of description to adequately re- 
late the horrors of these rebel prison pens, where men 
contended daily and nightly with the demons of hun- 
ger, and thirst, and nakedness. It is too horrible, and 
we pass it by. Our men, after a confinement of about 
thirty days, were exchanged, and the old flag once more 
saluted their gaze. It was the happiest day of their 
lives. The Company went into winter quarters at Ac- 
cotink and were under orders to hold the line of the 
Occoquan. 1 

In 1863 at the battle of Gettysburg the regiment 
was attached to General Meade's headquarters, and did 
good service in picking up stragglers from our own 
ranks and in conducting away the captured Confeder- 
ates. After the battle Captain Taylor had charge of 
the burial of the dead, in which duty he was engaged 
until July 17th. 

They spent the summer and fall of this year in fre- 
quent encounters with the enemy, in one of which at 
Parker's Store, Va., November 29th, Henry 0. Cole was 
captured and hurried away to Anderson ville, from 
which he was destined never to depart alive. They 
participated in the raid on Luray in December and 
went into winter quarters at Warrenton. 

In 1864 the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, 
under the command of Sheridan, rode further and 
fought harder than in any previous campaign. May 
5th a reconnoissance in force; May 7th a fight with 
Fitz Hugh Lee at Todd's Tavern, and on the 9th off 
w r ith Sheridan on his grand raid in the. rear of Lee's 
Army, where they destroy his supplies and fight Stuart 
by turns until the 26th, when they rejoin the army of 
Grant. On the 7th of June they are off again, and had 
severe encounters with the enemy at Trevilian Station 
and near Gordonsyille, and again at St. Mary's Church 
on the 24th. Company L participated in all this 
service. 



20 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

During the siege of Petersburg it was on the alert, 
fighting well contested fields August 14th at Deep Bot- 
tom, 16th at Charles City Cross Roads, and 23d at 
Ream's Station, where Captain Taylor was severely 
wounded. 

During the three years of his service Captain Tay- 
lor was several times honored with separate commands. 
By special order issued July 27, 1863, by the Provost 
Marshal General (Patrick) he was dispatched with a 
squad of cavalry to Manassas, Va., charged with the 
duty of breaking up a band of guerillas operating in 
that vicinity. 

August 12, 1863, he was sent by special order of 
General Patrick to intercept Captain Brenner's band of 
guerillas. The guerillas disbanded and escaped, but 
their equipage was captured and camp destroyed. 
The men were out five days on this raid. 

By special order issued April 25, 1864, by General 
Gregg, Captain Taylor was placed in command of a 
detachment consisting of Companies D, E, F, L, and I of 
the 2d Cavalry and placed in charge of an exposed and 
extended picket line at Grove Church near Morrisville, 
Va. He had 500 men in the command and occupied 
the post about two weeks at the critical juncture just 
before the opening of the Wilderness campaign. From 
the close of the Wilderness campaign, detailed above, 
the history of the regiment is identified with the his- 
tory of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac. It 
fought at Wyatt's farm, McDowell's Hill, and Five 
Forks, and was present at the surrender at Appomat- 
tox Court House. 

Captain Seip, of this regiment, thus concludes his 
account of its service. " The story of their rough rides 
and fierce conflicts will be rehearsed with honest pride ; 
for they fought well, obeyed cheerfully and shirked no 
dangerous duty. Under Buford or under Sheridan, 
they rode only with a desire to uphold the flag and 
subdue the rebellion. Their record is a noble one and 
will not fade. Pennsylvania carefully preserves the 
war-worn banner, and has inscribed on its folds its 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 21 

historic memories. On the skirmish line the regiment 
was noted for its steady, plucky advance. On parade 
it was distinguished for the regularity of its ' dress/ 
its fine appearance, its cleanliness, and its esprit." 

At the muster out the long service was over, and 
friends clasped hands made rough by sabre-grasp and 
bridle rein with all the enthusiasm of youth. . 

All but the dead, whose bones, bleaching from the 
Potomac to the Blackwater, mark the track of the 
army in its battle march, and testify to the glory won 
on the "field of honor." 

COMPANY B, 136TH REGIMENT. 

In Company B, 136th Regiment Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteers were thirteen men from Osceola. They enlist- 
ed to serve nine months. 

In July, 1862, a war meeting was held in the Ryon 
orchard, at Elkland, at which Thomas K. Beecher 
made an address. There was much enthusiasm at the 
meeting, which was largely attended by the people of 
the surrounding towns. The Osceola members of this 
Company were : 

Orville Breese, Hiram Babcock Cameron, 

Horatio Chisom, Austin Flanders, 

*Thomas Jenkins, Simeon McCaslin, 

fJohial Norton, §Asa Spencer, 

James Riley Stone, Norman Strait, 

• Soloman Van Zile, Frank Vastbinder, 

|Clark Very Worden. 



*Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Prisoner from 
Dec. 13, 1862, to May 28, 1863. Mustered out with company May 29, 
1863. 

f Discharged for disability on Surgeon's certificate Febiuary 13, 1863. 

^Discharged for loss of voice on Surgeon's certificate Feburary 13, 1863. 

$Asa Spencer was the village school-master and had " wielded the 
birch" at Osceola almost continually from April, 1856, until the time of 
his enlistment. When he enrolled his name he was in the employ of 
James Tubbs as a harvest hand — the school being in vacation. Soon after 
entering the service he was attacked with diarrhea, which became chronic 
in due time. He was sent to the Columbia College Hospital, Washing- 
ton, D. C, for treatment. When he became convalescent he was placed 
in charge of the baggage in the hospital, and in this position he served out 
the term of his enlistment. 



22 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

Charles Ryon, of Elkland, was chosen Captain of 
this company, but he was subsequently mustered in as 
Major of the regiment. On the day of the departure 
of these men from home, crowds of neighbors and 
friends thronged the streets of our little village to bid 
them good bye and see them off. It was a hot August 
day, and such breezes as were abroad were laden with 
martial and patriotic airs performed by a drum corps 
composed of Truman Crandall, (bass) Philetus Cran- 
dall, (snare) and Orville Breese (fife.) In this baker's 
dozen of men there were more husbands and fathers 
than had left in all previous enlistments. And as the 
wagons that conveyed them to Lawrenceville moved 
away there were not wanting manly and womanly 
tears to testify to the deep feeling which prevailed. 

After their muster into the service of the United 
States, August 16, 1862, they were at once sent forward 
to Washington where they arrived in the midst of the 
second battle of Bull Run. They were put into the 
defenses of Washington at Fort Lincoln, and subse- 
quently spent the time picketing the river in Mary- 
land or in following the movements of the Army of 
the Potomac in Virginia. They participated in the 
battle of Fredericksburg, an account of which is de- 
tailed in a letter written immediately thereafter by 
Corporal Norman Strait. It reads : " We were march- 
ed into the field about nine o'clock, A. M., Dec. 13, 
1862. We were ordered to lie flat upon the ground. 
The shelling was terrific. All around and over us the 
shells flew. We lay there hi the mud four hours. We 
then advanced about one hundred yards and fired, 
routing the enemy from their hiding places. Our aim 
was deadly. The enemy had good breastworks, while 
we were in the open field. We took possession of their 
works, but owing to some mismanagement, were not 
supported. There was a gap at our left, the enemy 
commenced flanking us, we were out of cartridges, and 
were ordered to retreat. At the same time the rebels 
were throwing shell, grape and canister at short range. 
How one of us escaped I know not. Riley Stone was 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 23 

mortally wounded. We were under musketry fire two 
hours and forty minutes." In the retreat they lost all 
their baggage, and during the remainder of the winter 
suffered much from the loss of their blankets and tents. 
In January following this regiment participated in 
Burnside's " Mud March," went into winter quarters at 
Belle Plain, were under artillery fire at Chahcellors- 
ville, where they went to the relief of the routed 11th 
corps, and on the 29th of May were mustered out of 
the service at Harrisburg, Pa. 

COMPANY A, 149TH REGIMENT. 

Osceola had two men in Company A, 149th Regi- 
ment, P. V., commanded by Captain Alfred J. Sofield. 
Your Post was named in compliment to Captain So- 
field, who was killed at Gettysburg, July 1,1863. The 
names of the two men from this town who served 
under him were Curtis Gleason and Peter Paul. They 
enlisted August 16, 1862. This regiment was under 
Reynolds at Gettysburg, and suffered severely in the 
battle upon the first day. Their position was upon 
the Chambersburg pike, where they held the enemy at 
bay until Meade could concentrate his army. In this 
battle Peter Paul was severely wounded and the fate of 
Curtis Gleason will be detailed further on in its appro- 
priate place. 

To this regiment Dr. W. T. Humphrey was trans- 
ferred September 5, 1862, where he was promoted to 
the full rank of Surgeon, and with it he served the re- 
mainder of his term. He went up through the various 
grades in the medical service of brigade surgeon, sur- 
geon in chief of division, and corps medical director to 
the second brigade, third division, first army corps, 
Army of the Potomac. In the Bucktails and in this 
regiment he served three years and seven months, and 
resigned his commission January 17, 1865, on account 
of ill health. 

THE EMERGENCY MEN. 

In January, 1863, an emergency unexpected in the 
prosecution of the war for the suppression of the rebell- 



24 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

ion arose. The battles of Fredericksburg and Chan- 
cellorsville had been disastrous to our arms. The 
rebel leaders were emboldened, and across the border 
into Pennsylvania they marched the rebel army. This 
bold, aggressive movement aroused men of our old 
Commonwealth as they never before had been aroused 
except w 7 hen they went forth in a former generation to 
meet the invader at Brandywine and Germantown. 
Heretofore we had sent out men to carry the war into 
the heart of the South, but the hunted had turned 
hunter — a rebel army was on our soil, with fire and 
sword. 

The Governor of our State called for 60,000 men — to 
repel the invader — the tables were turned. Now it 
was a question of the immediate protection of life and 
property, and home and hearth-stone. We lived far 
distant from the track of the invader, but the peril of 
the southern border, of the capital, and the metropolis 
of the State was the peril of all, and Osceola responded 
with eight men. They were : 
Thomas Jenkins, Andrew Keller Bullen, 

Jacob Bullen, Horace Quincy Cilley, 

Francis Marion Crandall, Leonard Leverne Kimball, 
Enoch JVJ. Steere, Charles H. Stubbs. 

The}' were mustered into Captain Luman. Stevens's 
Company G, 35th Regiment Emergency men, and 
served from July 2d to August 7th. During most of 
the time they were stationed near Shippensburg, in 
the Cumberland valley, and fortunately the event of 
the battle of Gettysburg made it unnecessary for them 
to render more active service in the field. 

COMPANY H, 207TH REGIMENT. 

Company H of the 207th Regiment, P. V., was the 
last one raised in the lower section of Cowanesque 
Valley. It was recruited and commanded b} r Robert 
Thomas Wood, of Elkland. He was the former com- 
mander of Company L, of the 2d Cavalry, and his ex- 
perience and record for bravery commended him to 
the soldiers of this new company as a fit and proper 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 25 



man to lead them. Osceola furnished six men to the 
ranks of this company. They were: Andrew Keller 
Bullen, o f Osceola ; Alonzo Goodwin Bullen, of Osceola ; 
Amasa Culver, of Elkland; John Henry Carl, of Farm- 
ington; Aaron Herrington, of Troupsburgh, N. Y. ; 
Joseph Upham, of Farmington. Barton Morse, of 
Knoxville, also served Osceola in the ranks of Company 
D (Capt. Phillips) in the same regiment, making seven 
men in all, which was the number required to fill the 
quota of the township under the President's call of 
July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men. It will be observed 
that but two men in the above list were residents of our 
township. The others accepted the liberal local bounty 
paid by Osceola and were accredited uopn our quota of 
their own choice. Culver was Second Lieutenant and 
Carl Orderly Sergeant of their company. 

These men were mustered in for one year at Harris- 
burg, September 8, 1864, and on the 12th started for the 
front. During the fall and winter they did picket duty 
between the Appomattox and the James. February 5, 
1865, they marched out to Hatcher's Run, but did not 
become engaged with the enemy. On the morning of 
March 25th the enemy assaulted the Union line in 
front of Petersburg and captured Fort Stedman. At 
six o'clock in the morning our men moved out of their 
quarters on double quick, proceeded down a ravine 
and took shelter beneath an abrupt bank. At eight 
o'cIock the whole division, under Gen. Hartranft, as- 
saulted Fort Stedman and recaptured it. As the 207th 
came from a quarter unexpected to the rebels, they did 
not sustain much loss. 

At the capture of Richmond, April 2d, they were 
drawn up in line of battle in front of Fort Sedgwick 
with the left resting on the Jerusalem plank road. 
The 207th led the assault on the rebel lines, under 
command of Colonel Robert C. Cox, and captured 
the fort with five pieces of artillery. Repeated attempts 
were made to retake it, but each assault of the foe was 
repulsed with great slaughter. On the morning of the 
next day the regiment entered Richmond and found it 



26 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

evacuated. From this time until they were discharged, 
May 31st, they were engaged in taking charge of and 
paroling rebel prisoners. 

OUR MEN IN NEW YORK REGIMENTS. 

An enrollment of all men who would be between the 
ages of 20 and 45 on the fiist day of July, 1863, was 
taken by Nelson G. Ray, Deputy Provost Marshal, in 
June of that year. Osceola was sub-district No. 110 of 
the 18th Congressional district, and the report of the 
Marshal con cerning it was as follows : 
Whole number enrolled, - - - 102 

Number serving in Pa. Vol. Co's, July 1, 1863, - 46 
" other States " " " - 6 

We have already made some examination concern- 
ing those serving in Pennsylvania Volunteer Compa- 
nies. Who were the men serving in other States ? 

Leonard Leverne Kimball enlisted May 18, 1861, in 
Captain Henry Baldwin's Company E, 34th Regiment, 
New York Volunteers, and was discharged for disability 
in April, 1862. During his period of service his regi- 
ment was engaged in picketing the Potomac on the 
Maryland side. 

Orville Samuel Kimball and Harlan Page Kimball 
enlisted February 11, 1862, in Company I, 103d Regi- 
ment, New York Volunteers. Their service was long- 
continued and deserves more than a passing notice. 
They did garrison duty in 1862 oX New Berne, N. C, and 
at Cape Hatteras Light-house until September. They 
then joined the Army of the Potomac at Washington, 
and marched by its devious route to Fredericksburg, 
and were in the assault on Marye's Heights in Sum- 
ner's grand division of the army. May 3, 1863, they 
had a sharp fight at Suffolk,Va.,and July 29th they were 
off for Charleston Harbor, S. C., where they were en- 
camped on Folly, Grand, and James Islands until 
August, 1864. They had several sharp skirmishes with 
the enemy while here. One of them is described in a 
letter from Orderly Sergeant 0. S. Kimball dated at 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 27 

" Folly Island, July 15, 1864." It runs thus : "On the 
morning of July 2, 1864, we went through the swamp 
to James Island with a line of ' nigger ' skirmishers 
ahead. The rebel pickets fired on us as we advanced 
through some brush and across one line of their rifle 
pits. I deployed ten men of Company I as a second 
skirmish line, the first having strayed off to the right. 
We came to an open field fifty or sixty rods wide. 
When we 'were two-thirds the distance across this field 
a masked battery opened on us with grape and canis- 
ter, double shotted. This caused some confusion 
in the regiment, also among the negroes. We soon 
rallied, charged the battery, and captured two guns, 
completely routing the enemy. Two men from my 
company were killed and two wounded. I escaped 
unhurt, except a lame foot — a grape shot carried away 
the toe of my boot, making the toe itself lame and 
sore. I, however, mourn the loss of my boot." On 
their return to the Army of the Potomac they raided 
up and down the Shenandoah Valley during the fall, 
and after January 1, 1865, did picket duty on the 
Bermuda front. Harlan Page Kimball was discharged 
(for disability) in May, 1863, and 0. S. Kimball in 
December, 1865, he having re-enlisted as a veteran. 

Leroy Hoaglin and Andrew Sutton* enlisted in 
June, 1863, in Company G, 2d Veteran Cavalry, New 
York Volunteers. They went into camp at Saratoga 
Springs. In October they were posted in the defences 
of Washington, where they remained until February, 
1864, when they were transferred to the Department of 
the Gulf, where they operated until the close of the 
war. March 4, 1864, they started upon the Red River 
Expedition under General Banks; had a sharp fight at 
Cane River Crossing, La., April 7th; were in the dis- 
astrous battle at Sabine Cross Roads April 8th, and on 
the 9th held the enemy at bay at Pleasant Hill. For 
reasons which we will not here detail this expedition 
failed, and during the retreat our cavalry men en- 
countered the enemy at Yellow Bayou May 19th, on 
their way to Alexandria. They finally fell back to 



28 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

Morganza, La., where they remained until March, 1865. 
During this time they made a raid under General Her- 
ring into central Alabama and approached Mobile. 
They also had a sharp fight at Port Hudson. In 
March, 1865, they went by boat to Pensacola, Fla.; en- 
gaged the enemy at Pollard, Fla., and arrived before 
Fort Blakely, near Mobile, Ala., April 1, 1865, and en- 
gaged in the reduction of this city, under General 
Canby. After the fall of Mobile they occupied Mont- 
gomery and Talladega, Ala., until November 16th, 
when they returned to Albany, N. Y., and were mus- 
tered out of the service on the 28th of the same month. 
Hoaglin was promoted from the ranks to a Lieuten- 
ancy. 

William Eugene Cilley enlisted in Company E, and 
George Vastbinder in Company C, of the 86th Regi- 
ment, New York Volunteers, in September, 1861. This 
regiment belonged to the Army of the Potomac, and 
saw much hard service, of which our two representa- 
tives from Osceola saw their full share, as will appear 
when we have occasion to mention them again. 

THE DRAFT. 

December 19, 1864, the President issued his last call 
for volunteers. Osceola made strenuous exertions to 
raise this last quota. One thousand five hundred dol- 
lars in cash was raised by subscription to pay men to 
fill the quota. But a small amount of this monej^ was 
used for this purpose. March 25, 1865, the draft was 
made, but the town still had the privilege of supplying 



^Andrew Sutton was a man of unsound mind. While in Lousiana he 
spent much of his time in "telling fortunes" for the men in camp and 
in locating mines. To aid his powers of divination he consulted a "magic 
stone," which he kept upon his person. While the regiment lay at Morganza, 
Louisiana, he wandered away from camp and was reported as a deserter. 
He has never been heard of since, and it is believed he died soon after his 
disappearance. He left a wife and several children at Osceola. 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 29 

the places of the drafted men with volunteers. Those 
drafted were : 

George Anson Kinney, Leonard Leverne Kimball, 
Hiram Taylor, John Weasner Teachman, 

John O'Connor, Cornelius Dillenbeck, 

Isaac Packson Van Zile, Mancier Gleason, 
George Barker. 

Of the men who were drafted John Weasner Teach- 
man furnished a substitute in the person of John Cal- 
vin Whittaker, of Elkland ; and George Barker furn- 
ished a substitute in the person of Alexander Finch, of 
Elkland. 

In each of the above cases it was done at a personal 
expense of $700 in excess of the town bounty. 

The drafted men were ordered to report at Williams- 
port, but a flood in the rivers prevented travel, and 
the muster-in was delayed until the war was virtually 
ended by the surrender of Lee on the 9th of April — 
fifteen days after the draft was made. 

CITIZEN SERVICE. 

The money to pay bounties to volunteers was raised 
in Osceola during the war partly by subscription,* and 
partly by taxation, under authority of the Act of Leg- 
islature of August 25, 1864. Under this Act bonds 
were issued in the name of the township and signed by 
the Supervisors, George Bucher and Julius Scott. 



*One of the subscription papers is yet in existence and lies before us. 
The others, upon which much larger sums were set down, are either lost 
or destroyed. This one reads as follows : " We, the undersigned, agree 
to pay the several sums set to our names for the purpose of raising a local 
bounty for two recruits yet lacking to fill the quota of Osceola for the last 
call, and in case there is not money enough raised to pay said two men, 
then in that case the money is to be refunded to the man who pays it in — 
to be paid by March 5th, 1864." 

George Tubbs . #5 V. C. Phelps . . #5 John Tubbs . . $5 
George Barker . 5 John Barker. . . 5 E. M. Steere . . 5 
John O'Connor . 5 Morgan Seely . 5 Shelden Ocorr . 1 
John Seely ... 5 Calvin Hober . 5 Benson Tubbs . 5 
Alvers Bosard . 5 A. Smith ... 5 Charles Crandall 5 
Ella Kimball . . 5 Austin Flanders 5 Allen Seely . . 5 
C. D. Kinney . 5 H. Flanders . . 5 R. Crandall . . 5 
James Tubbs . . 5 D. Coats .... 5 Hiram Stevens . 5 



30 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

The town bounty of the volunteers who went to fill 
our quota February, 1864, was one hundred dollars 
each, and to those who went in September, 1864, two 
hundred dollars each, and in March, 1865, three hun- 
dred dollars each. The total amount paid is uncer- 
tain, as the township records are defective. 

As a meritorious citizen service it may be mention- 
ed that Charles Bulkley furnished a substitute in the 
person of Asa Smith, August 10, 1864, at a personal 
expense of $800. It is not known in what regiment 
Smith served. He was an honorably discharged 
soldier, having previously served out an enlistment of 
two years in Captain Jerry A. Sullivan's Company D, 
13th Regiment, New York Volunteers. 

Volcut Carlton Phelps also furnished a substitute in 
the person of Levi Howe, in September, 1864, at a per- 
sonal expense to himself of $700 in excess of the town 
bounty. Levi Howe served as a private in Compauy 
H, 102d Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was honorably 
discharged. 

When the credit of the National Government was 
low in the money markets of the world an appeal was 
made by the Secretary of the Treasury to our own 
people to furnish the "sinews of war." Among those 
of our citizens who invested to the extent of their 
ability we may mention Ira Bulkley, Newton Bulkley, 
and James Tubbs. In those days, when the existence 
of the Government depended upon the result of war- 
like operations and the wager of battle, the value of 
Government bonds did not seem as assured as it does 
to-day. It was then regarded as a patriotic act to sub- 
scribe to the National loan. 

August 2, 1863, an amendment to the Constitution 
of Pennsylvania was submitted to a vote of the people. 
The question involved was whether our citizen sol- 
diers should be permitted to exercise the right of suf- 
frage while absent from home performing military 
service. Osceola recorded 63 votes in favor of this 
proposition to none against it. 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 31 

The ministers of the gospel resident among us also 
rendered meritorious citizen service against the seces- 
sion movement of the South. 

Reverend Charles LaFayette Howe, pastor of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, had no scruples against 
" political preaching." No day was too holy in his 
creed and no place too sacred for the utterance of 
loyalty, and he never stopped to apologize for it. He 
was active, enthusiastic and outspoken in favor of the 
Union cause. 

In the fall of 1862 his place was supplied under the 
itinerant system by the Reverend Cornelius Dillen- 
beck,* who enjoined on all the sacred duties of citizen- 
ship in the crisis which had come. 

He remained with us until the fall of 1864 when he 
was succeeded by the Rev. William E. Pindar, whose 
service extended to the end of the war. During his 
pastorate Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and it 
fell to his lot to deliver a funeral discourse upon the 
life and character of our murdered President. His 
text was from 2d Samuel, iii., 38 : " Know ye not 
that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day 
in Israel." Reverently our people gathered in their 
place of worship, made sombre by emblems of mourn- 
ing, and with bowed heads and heavy hearts endeav- 
ored to become reconciled to this latest National afflic- 
tion.. 

Reverend Edward Kennedy was pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church during the war. He desired to 
see the rebellion crushed and the Government sustain- 



*Reverend Cornelius Dillenbeck, under date of May 17, 1884, writes 
from Hartland, N. Y., as follows : " There is only one item of war pro- 
ceedings that took place during my two years in Osceola that sticks closely 
in my memory, and that was the draft. I was fortunate enough to be 
conscripted. Soon thereafter I chanced to meet Mr. Kennedy, of the 
Presbyterian Church, who was decidedly Old School in his faith. He very 
pleasantly greeted me with the remark : '■ I suppose you now believe in 
election." There seemed to be no way out for me other than to confess I 
did so believe in that particular instance. I reported, with others, to the 
Provost Marshal, but was allowed to return home, as the draft and the 
close of the war occurred at about the same time." 



32 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

ed. He took part in, and spoke at a meeting held for 
the purpose of enlisting troops. He was punctilious in 
holding appropriate services on all fast days and 
Thanksgiving days appointed by the President. When 
President Buchanan appointed a fast in the last days 
of his Administration, Mr. Kennedy preached a sermon 
from the text (Daniel, ix., 8) " Lord to us belongeth 
confusion of face, to our king, to our princes, and to 
our fathers, because we have sinned against thee." 
The burden of this sermon was the peril of the Nation. 
In July, 1861, from the text : " For rebellion is as the 
sin of witchcraft," (1 Samuel, xv., 23) he showed the 
duty of obedience to our Government. In November, 
1861, President Lincoln appointed a Thanksgiving 
day. There had been disasters at Bull Run and Ball's 
Bluff. While our minister admitted that our country 
was in a deplorable condition, he argued we should be 
thankful because it was no worse, and that there was 
good reason to believe that the cause of the Union 
would triumph in the end. He drew these inferences 
from the Scripture (Psalms, ciii., 10) : " He hath not 
dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according 
to our iniquities." The President in April, 1863, 
called upon the people to hold a solemn fast before the 
opening of the spring campaign. The disastrous battle 
of FredericKsburg had cast a great gloom over the 
Nation. Divine intervention was asked in a discourse 
found on Joel, i., 14 : "Sanctify ye a fast." On 
Thanksgiving day, 1864, the clouds had begun to lift, 
and although the rebellion was not crushed it was 
evident it could not hold out much longer. On this 
occasion we listened to a sermon from the text (1 Sam- 
uel, vii., 12) : " Hitherto hath the Lord helped us, for 
which we should raise our Ebenezer." After our 
triumph — July 4, 1865 — Mr. Kennedy chose for his 
subject, The prerogative of Deity to bring good out of 
evil, based on the Scripture : "Surely the wrath of man 
shall praise thee, and the remainder of wrath shalt thou 
restrain." 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 33 
SOLDIERS' AID SOCIETIES. 

Deserving of high praise and commendation was 
the citizen service rendered by our women. They 
were as loyal to the Government as the men. In the 
first years of the war they organized a Soldiers' Aid 
Society. Meetings of this Society were held from house 
to house, and picking lint, stripping up bandages from 
cotton cloth, and making little cushions for wounded 
limbs to rest upon, was the employment for young and 
old. These supplies were sent to the Sanitary Commis- 
sion. The amount of these contributions it is now im- 
possible to ascertain. At a later date we find record 
of the organization of an Auxiliary Society to the Chris- 
tian Commission, which took place April 23, 1864. The 
officers were : Mrs. A. R. Wightman, President ; Mrs. 
Hoyt Tubbs and Mrs. H. C. Bosworth, Vice Presidents ; 
Miss Permelia Gertrude Taylor, Secretary ; Mrs. V. C. 
Phelps, Treasurer, and Mrs. Clark Kimball, Chaplain. 
Before the 15th of June this Society collected and sent 
off two boxes ; No. 1 containing clothing and reading 
matter ; No. 2 containing dried fruit, jellies and other 
delicacies. The students of the High School gave an 
exhibition for the benefit of this Society, from which a 
handsome sum of money was realized. 

The children of the town caught the patriotic spirit, 
and on May 28, 1864, organized an " Alert Club " to raise 
funds for the sick and wounded soldiers. Of this Club 
Ida Seely was President ; Adell Kinney, Vice-Presi- 
dent ; Florence Hortense Bosard, Secretary, and Ettie 
Stubbs and Carrie Wilkins, Collectors. June 11th the 
Collectors reported $14.32 as the result of their labors. 

Lucy Moore Hotchkiss, Associate Manager of the 
Sanitary Commission, resided one year at Osceola, and 
from this point issued her appeal in behalf of that 
Society, to the children of Tioga county, April 27, 1864. 
In speaking of this work here, under date of June 15, 
1864, she says : "There has recently been organized a 
Soldiers' Aid Society, from which we have the most 
gratifying results. They have forwarded the Christian 



34 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

Commission a number of nice boxes, and have now a 
firkin of butter nearly ready. Success to all such 
efforts." 

A letter to the Agitator says that a large assemblage 
convened at the High School chapel, February 22d, 
1865; that the meeting was called to order by Professor 
W. C. Stone ; that Reverend W. E. Pindar invoked the 
Divine blessing; that an address was delivered by 
Reverend Mr. Graves ; that a supper (which is des- 
cribed in military phrase) was served, and that over 
one hundred dollars was realized for the Soldiers' Aid 
Society. We quote the closing sentence : " Thus, 
while our fathers and brothers and sons are perform- 
ing deeds of noble daring against a high-handed and 
wicked rebellion, they are cheered onward and sus- 
tained by the sweet voices and kind deeds, the loving 
hearts and ardent prayers of mothers, sisters, and 
daughters." 

As early as the 15th of May, 1861, an Act of the 
Legislature provided that the Associate Judges and 
County Commissioners should form a " Board of Relief 
to furnish such support as they may deem proper for 
the families of volunteers enrolled and mustered into 
the service." The maintenance and care of the needy, 
therefore, became a matter of concern for the county, 
and not for the township, and is consequently out of 
the bounds we have assigned to this address. Andrew 
Keller Bosard was appointed by the " Board of Relief" 
to look after soldiers' families in this town, and report 
their wants to it. Mr. Bosard also acted as the agent 
of the town at Williamsport, Harrisburg, and Carlisle, 
attending to the muster-in of the men and seeing that 
they were properly accredited. In September, 1864, 
John Tubbs was associated with him in the perform- 
ance of these duties. 

SUMMARY. 

Osceola had no man in the naval service of the 
United States, nor in the artillery branch of the land 
service, nor did she suffer any drafted man to serve 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 35 

her during the rebellion, nor did any of her citizens 
serve as a substitute for others. 

We may summarize what she did do as follows : 
Thirty-four men from Osceola served in the cavalry, 
thirty served in the infantry, and four in both infantry 
and cavalry. Four citizens furnished substitutes. 

In this statement the emergency men of 1863 are 
not included. 

None of the substitutes came from our own territory, 
and they are not included in the list of soldiers. 

No one is included in the above summary who 
lived in another town but accepted our bounty and was 
acredited upon our quota. 

OUR DEAD. 

Having detailed at some length the service of the 
different companies, let us examine briefly the destiny 
of the individual men. What became of " our boys," 
whose careers we have outlined in the separate organ- 
izations into which they entered? Our boys! 

We have seen them on the march, in the bivouac, 
by the blazing camp-fires, and on guard during the 
weary watches of the night; in this brief hour we have 
been with them under McClellan and Burnside and 
Hooker and Meade and Grant ; we have beheld them 
where the tide of battle ebbed and flowed on the Penin- 
sula and at Fredericksburg — at Antietam and at Get- 
tysburg and in the Wilderness; we have sat down 
with them in the trenches before Petersburg, and 
joined in the mad rush for Five Forks and Appomat- 
tox ; we have caught glimpses of them in the whirling 
squadrons of the cavalry, where with sabre and carbine 
they led the advance or covered the retreat or hung on 
the flanks of the foe ; and we have viewed them in the 
charging columns of the infantry, where with trusty 
rifle or gleaming bayonet they assaulted the enemy's 
well constructed works, or in fort, or rifle pit, or in the 
open field resisted his fierce onslaught with undaunted 
valor. What were the consequences to them person- 
ally? To what fate did the wild whirlwind of war 
waft them ? 



36 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 
Ten were Killed in Battle: 

1. George Henry Gee. at Charles City Cross Roads, 
June 30th, 1862. 

2. Lewis Campbell Lewis, at Bull Run, August 
29th, 1862. 

3. James Riley Stone, at Fredericksburg, December 
13th, 1862. 

4. George Vastbinder, at Chancellorsville, May 3d, 
1863. 

5. Curtis Gleason, at Gettysburg, July 1st, 1863. 

6. William Eugene Cilley, at Wilderness, May 6th, 
1864. 



i. George Henry Gee, son of David and Catherine (Miles) Gee, was 
born February 22, 1828, upon the " Transit tract," near Buffalo, New- 
York. He was a teamster in General Taylor's army in Mexico. He was 
killed on the retreat towards Gaines's Mill and his body left upon the field. 

2. Lewis Campbell Lewis, son of William and Margaret (Campbell) 
Lewis, was born in 1822, in the town of Hector, Schuyler county, N. Y. 
He was a mechanic by trade. He received a gun-shot wound in the 
bowels the first day of the battle and died the next day. 

3. James Riley Stone, son of Joseph Darwin and Lydia (Darling) 
Stone, was born August 15, 1833, in .Onondaga county, New York. At 
Fredericksburg he received a gun-shot wound in the arm which was not 
serious. His comrade and tent-mate, Sylvester Bullock, brought him off 
the field. He came with great reluctance, declaring to Bullock that he 
wished to be taken prisoner by the rebels. The pursuit of the enemy 
became hot, and Bullock left him. He has never been heard of since. On 
a showing of the above facts the Pension Office assumed him to be dead, 
and granted the usual allowance to his widow and minor children He 
was, no doubt, killed at the first approach of the rebels 

4. George Vastbinder, son of Philip and Phebe (Miller) Vastbinder, 
was born May 3, 1840, at Osceola, Tioga county, Pa He received a gun- 
shot wound ;n the face, May 3, was taken to a field hospital and from 
thence to Washington, where he died in a hospital on Meridian hill on the 
24th of the same month. 

5. Curtis Gleason, son of Nelson and Esther (Taylor) Gleason, was 
born May 30, 1835, in Chatham, Tioga county, Pa. He was killed by a 
bursting shell in an old railroad cut north of Gettysburg, on the first day 
of the battle, and the ground was soon after occupied by the enemy. When 
our army re-occupied the ground his body could not be recognized. It is 
therefore buried among the " Unknown." 

6. William Eugene Cilley, son of Horace Baxter and Hannah (Worden) 
Cilley, was born April 3, 1844, at Osceola, Tioga county, Pa. He re-en- 
listed as a veteran volunteer at Brandy Station, Va., December 13, 1863. 
While charging the enemy, May 6, 1864, he was struck on the head by a 
fragment of a shell, sent to a field hospital which was captured by the 
rebels, in whose hands he died May 9. 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 37 

7. Uriah Brimmer, at Todd's Tavern (Wilderness), 
May 8th, 1864. 

8. Miles Finch, at Todd's Tavern (Wilderness), May 
8th, 1864. 

9. Edwin Tyler Bruce, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, May 12th, 1864. 

10. Henry Odell, at Saint Mary's Church, Va., July 
24th, 1864. 

Two Died in Rebel Prisons : 

1. Henry 0. Cole, captured November 28, 1863, and 
died at Andersonville, Georgia. 



7. Uriah Brimmer, son of Johial and Abigail (Lilley) Brimmer, was 
born in September, 1846, in the town of Woodhull, Steuben county, N. 
Y. He was killed by a gun-shot wound through the heart and buried on 
the field. 

8. Miles Finch, son of Richard and Anna (Mapes) Finch, was born 
December 1, 1829, in the town of Tyrone, Schuyler county, N. Y. He 
received a gun-shot wound in the right lung, May 8, 1862, of which he 
died on the 23d of the same month. His remains were brought home and 
are interred in the Osceola cemetery. 

9. Edwin Tyler Bruce, son of Charles Herman and Abigail Charlotte 
(Campbell) Bruce, was born in 1841, in Seneca county, N. Y. He was 
instantly killed by a grape shot while charging the rebel intrenchments. 
As our army was repulsed and driven back, his body was left on the field. 
The woods were fired in front of the rebel works, and it was no doubt con- 
sumed by the flames immediately after the battle. 

10. Henry Odell, son of Richard and Melissa (Johnson) Odell, was 
born January 27, 1845, at Rathboneville, Steuben county, N. Y. As the 
2d Cavalry were riding by the " Bucktails " during the Wilderness cam- 
paign young Odell fell in with his old acquaintances in Company L. John 
Brimmer and Lewis D. Fenton assisted in furnishing him with one of 
Uncle Sam's horses, and thus provided for he rode away with them, and 
thenceforth participated in all their encounters with the enemy. At Saint 
Mary's Church he was fighting with great bravery behind a pile of rails 
when he was hit in the shoulder by' a rebel bullet which passed down his 
arm to the elbow. He was taken to a field hospital and from thence to 
Philadelphia, where he died October 31, 1864. 

1. Henry O. Cole was a barber and kept a shop in .Osceola two or 
three years previous to the war. He came here from Wellsboro, where he 
had been employed in the same business. Nothing is known here about 
his' antecedents. He was a light mulatto. The prison records show that 
he died October 24, 1864, and was buried in grave No. 11,438. 



38 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

2. Andrew Godfrey, captured August 19th, 1864, 
and died at Salisbury, North Carolina. 

Six Died in Army Hospitals or Immediately after Their 
Discharge for Disability : 

3. Almon Bennett Gifford, died December 4th, 1861' 

4. Samuel Stevens died June 28th, 1863. 

5. Harlan Page Kimball died September 8th, 1863. 

6. Robert Long died April 9th, 1864. 

7. Aaron Thompson Hathaway died August, 1864. 

8. Alonzo Goodwin Bullen died September 22d, 
1865. 



2. Andrew Godfrey, son of Peter and Margaret Godfrey, was born in 
1824 at Sarebourg, Department la Meurthe, Lorraine, France. He im- 
migrated to the United States in 1843 t0 av oid conscription into the 
French army. After residing at Elmira, N. Y., and at Hamilton, C. W., 
some years he came to Osceola and made it his home about 1856. He was 
a cabinet maker. The Superintendent of the National Cemetery at Salis- 
bury, N. C, writes : "Out of 11,700 who died in prison we have the 
names and date of death of only 3,504. The name of Andrew Godfrey 
does not appear among the latter." He left a wife and one son who are 
since deceased. 

3. Almon Bennett Gifford, son of Oliver Rice and Mary (Asper) 
Gifford, was born December 5, 1840, at Painted Post, Steuben county, N. 
Y. He died of camp fever in the hospital at Harrisburg, Pa., and is 
buried there. 

4. Samuel Stevens, son of Martin and Hannah (Tubbs) Stevens, was 
born July 17, 1833, at Elkland, Tioga county, Pa. He died of chronic 
diarrhoea at home soon after his discharge on Surgeon's certificate for dis- 
ability. He is buried in the cemetery by the Presbyterian church at Elk- 
land. 

5. Harlan Page Kimball, son of Clark and Hannah (Whittemore) 
Kimball, was born at Osceola, Tioga county, Pa., August 13, 1844. He 
died of chronic diarrhoea at home a few weeks after his discharge on 
Surgeon's certificate for disability on that account. He is buried in the 
grounds of the Osceola Cemetery Association. 

6. Robert Long, son of Eli and Eliza Maria (Finch) Long, was born 
March 23, 1850, at Osceola, Tioga county, Pa. He had measles; pneu 
monia supervened, of which he died in hospital at Washington, D. C. 

7. Aaron Thompson Hathaway, son of Charles Demarest and Sarah 
(French) Hathaway, was born at Big Flats, Chemung county, N. Y., Feb- 
ruary 16, 1838. He died of typhoid fever at the Camp Stoneman hospi- 
tal, Washington, D. C. 

8. Alonzo Goodwin Bullen, son of Zebulon and Esther (Simmons) 
Bullen, was born in September, 1836, at Osceola, Tioga county, Pa. He 
died of chronic diarrhoea a few weeks after his discharge. He is buried 
in the grounds of the Osceola Cemetery Association. 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 39 

These are our dead : gone in the bloom and flower 
of youth. The youngest was fourteen and the oldest 
but forty years of age. Some of them had been ten- 
derly reared and nurtured, while others had been rude- 
ly jostled by the world. 

The remains of three of them lie entombed within 
the sound of my voice ; one reposes in an unknown 
grave at Gettysburg ; some were carried to their last 
rest from the wards of hospitals and others from out 
the walls of rebel prison-pens, while the bones of others 
still bleach on the fields where they fell. 

They enjoyed existence in this world. To them, as 
to us, came the balmy breezes of spring-time, the grate- 
ful heat of summer, the cool of autumn days and the 
storms of winter. To them, as to us, the light of day 
was pleasant, the upper air congenial and in their 
young veins pulsated the warmth and glow of health. 
To them, as to us, the blossoms of spring were beauti- 
ful to the sight and fragrant to the smell, and their 
ears drank in the music of singing birds and all melo- 
dious sounds. To them, as to us, the future held out 
high hopes and rosy anticipations of the things to 
come. They had loved homes and affectionate friends 
and tender associations — and life was sweet. 

But sweet as it was they gave it up — their country 
called, and they gave it up. For their country they 
surrendered all social and material interests ; they sev- 
ered the ties of kindied and family and gave even the 
precious boon of life itself. Theirs was the perfect sac- 
rifice. 

Friends and neighbors ! On this memorial day of 
the year we do well to recall their names, to recount 
their valorous deeds and place flowers upon their 
graves. We do well to cherish the memory of their 
bravery, their generosity and their chivalrous spirit. 

Thereby their example may inspire us and our 
descendants for generations to come to a purer and 
loftier patriotism. 






J. II 

G. A. R., DEPARTMENT OF PENN'A 



Record of the Post. 



Captain Alfred J. Sofield Post, No. 49, Department of Penn'a, G. A. 
R., was instituted by a meeting of honorably discharged soldiers and 
sailors held at Osceola, Tioga county, Penn'a, on the evening of January 
14, 1876, as a preliminary meeting, and an organization was effected at a 
meeting held on the evening of January 18, 1876, at the same place. The 
charter members were duly mustered as comrades in the Grand Army of 
the Republic on the evening of the eighth day of February, 1876, by 
comrade J. H. Wilson, of Perkins Post, 202, at Athens, Penn'a, who was 
detailed for that purpose by Department Headquarters, and was assisted 
by the following named comrades : Captain Charles R. Taylor (com- 
mander of J. Edgar Parkhurst Post, No. 35, Elkland, Pa.), as Senior Vice- 
Commander ; Frank G. Babcock (of G. and A. A. Seely Post, No. 44, at 
Knoxville, Pa.), as Junior Vice-Commander; S. E. Huber (of the same 
Post), Officer of the Day, and L. W. Scott (of J. Edgar Parkhurst Post, No. 
35, at Elkland Pa.), as Officer of the Guard. 

The charter members of the Post were Orville S. Kimball, Sylvester 
Tinney, Israel Boyer, Egbert Bullock, Hugh J. Magee, Elias Bullock, 
Leroy P. Davis, Silas Tinney, Jerome Bates, Seely D. Green, Orange G. 
Johnson, Stephen Martin, Jr., and Asaph Johnson. 

The officers elected for the year 1S76 were duly installed the same 
evening by mustering officer, Comrade Wilson. 



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42 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

Roster of Members of Alfred J. Sofield Post, 
No. 49, Dep't of Penn'a, G. A. R. 



Name. Mustered. 

1. Norman Strait, (Rec'd by card from Post No. 35.) . . Feb. 18 1875 

2. Sylvester Tinney Feb. 8, 1876 

3. Israel Boyer " " " 

4. Orville S. Kimball " " " 

5. Hugh J. Magee " " " 

6. Elias Bullock " " " 

7. Jerome Bates " " " 

8. George Heysham Feb. 15,1876 

9. Adelbert J. Heggie . " " " 

10. William H. Lunger Dec. 18, 1877 

11. William Babcock " " " 

12. Allen H. Perry Jan. 7, 1878 

13. John W. Hammond, (Rec'd by card from Post No. 35.) . Feb. 18, 1875 

14. Augustus Cadugan " 15, 1876 

15. Stephen Martin, Jr " 8, " 

16. Orange G. Johnson " " " 

17. Silas Tinney " " " 

18. Seeley D. Green " " " 

19. Captain Chas. R. Taylor, (By card from Post No. 35.) . Feb. 18, 1875 

20. Rev. Henry C. Moyer April 9, 1878 

21. Philander Hall May 14, 1878 

22 John Hawe, (Rec'd by card from Post No. 25.) . . .Feb. 18, 1875 

23. George Dougherty, (Rec'd by card from Post No. 35.) May 1, 1875 

24. William T. Humphrey, " " " " " Feb. 18,1875 

25. Seth D. Baxter April 26, 1881 

26. William R. Watkins, (Rec'd by card from Post No. 44.) 

27. John A. Brimmer, (Rec'd by card from Post No. 35.) . Feb. 18, 1875 

28. George W. Buckbee " " " " " . Dec. 11, 1875 

29. Leverne L. Kimball ' March 15, 1882 

30. Charles K. Cameron " " " 

31. Abijah Kizer May 16, " 

32. Capt. R. T. Wood, (Rec'd by card from Post No. 35.) . 

33. Robert McCann, " " " " . Feb. 18, 1875 

34. Eleazer Albee " 27, 1883 

35. Joel Kizer March 13, 1883 

36. Austin Flanders " 27, 1883 

37. E. H. Chamberlain May 8, 1883 

38. Richard Smith Dec. 11, 1883 

39. William C. Elliott Jan. 22,1884 

40. Rev. Stephen M. Dayton " " " 

41. James Freeland Feb. 11, 1884 

42. Joseph Whitmore " " " 

43. Theodore Doan " 26, •' 

44. Nicholas Kizer May 27, 1884 

45. Frank I. Miles April 22, 1884 

46. John Lynch May 27, 1884 

47. Hiram Blend June 10, 1884 



OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 43 

48. Walter Pease Aug. 12, 1884 

49. Benjamin F. Colvin Sept. 23, 1884 

50. Truman B. Foote July 8, 1884 

51. George Mack, (Rec'd by card from Post No. 35,) . . . Nov. 27, 1875 

52. Asaph Johnson Feb. 15, 1876 

53. W. I. Radecker, (Rec'd by card from Post No. 35.) . . M'ch 4, 1875 

54. Andrew J. Corwin Nov. 25, 1884 

55. Chan cey Ellsworth " " " 

56. Gilbert Kizer " " " 

Norman Strait was mustered into the service of the United States on the 
9th day of August, 1862, as a private in Company " B," 136th Regiment, 
Penn'a Volunteers, for the period of nine months ; was promoted to the 
rank of Corporal, and participated in all battles in which the regiment was 
engaged, and was mustered out of the service by reason of expiration 
of term of enlistment on the 8th day of December, 1863. 

Orville S. Kimball enrolled his name in Captain William Crosby's Com- 
pany at Elmira, N. Y., on the nth day of February, 1862, and was mus- 
tered into the service of the United States on the 13th by Captain William 
Hudson Lawrence, of the Regular Army, to serve three years or during 
the war. At this time Captain Crosby's Company was an independent 
one, but was ordered to Washington, D. C, about March 20, 1862, and 
formed Company "I," 103d N. Y. Volunteers (Seward's Infantry). The 
regiment was in a few days ordered to Annapolis, Md., embarked on the 
United States steamer Erricson, and after a stormy voyage of five days 
landed at Hatteras Inlet, N. C, and a day later landed at New Berne, N. 
C, April 1, 1862. Was on outpost duty at Evans' Mills, 7 miles from 
New Berne till May 20th. Three companies of the Regiment, " I," " E," 
and " K " were detached and sent to Hatteras Island. Corporal Kimball 
was sent out with a detachment as Light-house guard at Cape Hatteras 
till September 1, 1862, when they again received orders and rejoined the 
Regiment at Antietam Creek, Md., September 29, 1862. Marched with 
the Army of the Potomac to Fredericksburg, Va.; crossed the Rappahannock 
into the city on the 12th of December, 1862 ; charged Marye's Heights on 
the 13th ; re-crossed the river on the evening of the 15th ; came to New- 
port News with the Regiment in February, 1863, and Suffolk, Va., on the 
Nansemond river, a month later ; was there during the siege of that place, 
which ended in a hard-fought battle, May 3, 1863, in which the Regiment 
sustained a heavy loss, the Colonel (Ringold) being killed. Was near 
Portsmouth, Va., May 27th; Yorktown, Va., June 22d; White House 
Landing, July 1st ; Taylor's farm and Hanover Junction, Va., July 4, 1863 ; 
destroyed the railroad, cutting off General Lee's communications with 
Richmond, and returned to Portsmouth July 13, 1863. Re-enlisted as a 
veteran in the field in the same Company and Regiment in February, 



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1864, at Folly Island, S. C. Was at James Island, S. C, July 2d to 10th, 
1864; Washington, D. C, August 3, 1864; in the Shenandoah Valley 
till December, 1864; Bermuda Front (slaughter pen) from January 1st 
till April, 1865 , in Petersburg, Va., April 5, 1865 till May 20th ; was on 
detached service from the Company and Regiment in department of sub- 
sistance in and around Petersburg, Va., till mustered out of the service 
December 16, 1865. Was promoted Sergeant in September, 1862, and 
Orderly Sargeant in December, 1862. 

William H. Lunger enlisted as private in Company K, 107th New York 
Volunteers on the nth day of August, 1862, and was mustered out of the 
service in accordance with General Order No. 77, War Department, on 
the 5th day of June, 1865. 

Aleen H.Perry, at the breaking out of the Rebellion in the spring of 
1 86 1, enlisted in the service of the State of Pennsylvania for three months ; 
went to Harrisburg and was discharged after three weeks. Enlisted on the 
24th day of August, 1 861, in Capt. Calkins's Company " F," 1 ith Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry for three years, or during the war, was mustered at Philadel- 
phia. Went to Washington, D. C, about October 1, 1861; was at Fort- 
ress Monroe at the time of the action between the Merrimac and Monitor 
March 9, 1862 ; thence to Yorktown in June ; on to White House Land- 
ing ; was taken sick with typhoid fever ; sent to Hampton general hos- 
pital, Va., in September, 1862; rejoined the regiment at Suffolk, Va; 
was promoted to Corporal in 1863 ; was sent to Hampton general hospital, 
near Fortress Monroe, Va., and in October 1863, sent to Germantown 
general hospital, Philadelphia; was transferred to Company " G," 54th 
Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps ; was detailed in the Ordnance Depart- 
ment, Washington, D. C, until discharged August 29, 1864. 

Captain John W. Hammond was mustered as First Lieutenant of 
Company " G," 141st Regiment N. Y. Volunteers, August 30, 1862; was 
mustered out as Captain of the same Company and Regiment in accord- 
ance with Special Order No. 544, War Department, on the 8th day of 
December, 1863. 

Orange G. Johnson was mustered into the service of the United 
States in Captain R. T. Wood's Company " H," 207th Regiment Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers, on the first day of September, 1864, to serve one 
year. Participated in all actions, battles, marches, and fatigues in which 
his Regiment and Company were engaged, and was discharged on the 
31st day of May, 1865, at Alexandria, Va., in accordance with order of 
War Department, May 17 and 18, 1865. 

Seeley D. Green enlisted into the service at Wellsville, N. Y., in 
Captain Joshua Pittenger's Company " G," 64th Regiment, N. Y. Volun- 
teer Infantry to serve three years. Was mustered into the service of the 



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United States at Elmira, N. Y., in August, 1861. Went to Washington, D. 
C, in November, 1861 ; to Alexandria, Va., a month later, and to Manassas 
Junction, Va., in March, 1862, and then to Harrison's Landing; was at 
Washington, D. C, August 1, 1862; South Mountain and Antietam, Md., 
September 14 to 17, 1862, was there wounded by a minie ball passing 
through the left leg and lodging in the right ankle, where it still remains ; 
was discharged from general hospital, Washington, D. C. Again enlisted 
at Bath, Steuben county, N. Y., on the 16th day of January, 1864, in 
Company " G," 22d Regiment, N. Y. Cavalry, and was mustered into the 
service of the United States at Rochester, N. Y., February 16, 1864. 
Went to Camp Stoneman, Washington, D. C, a month later ; Battle of 
the Wilderness, Va., May 7, 1864; Fredericksburg, Va., May 10, 1864; 
Petersburg, Va., and on the Weldon R. R. June 22, and 23, 1864; was at 
Dismounted 'Camp, Washington, D. C, July 2, 1864, and was discharged 
by muster-out of the Company, August 9, 1865. 

Rev. Henry C. Moyer was mustered into the United States service on 
the 24th of April, 1861, to serve three months in Company "A," nth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was discharged July 31, 1 86 1, by reason of 
expiration of period of enlistment. 

Philander Hall enlisted and was mustered into the service of the 
United States October 14, 1861, in Company " C/' 7th Regiment, Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry Volunteers. Was discharged by reason of General Order 
from the War Department, August 25, 1865. 

Seth D. Baxter enlisted at Wellsboro, Pa., in Captain F. M. Hill's 
Company " I," 45th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Infantry, Colone* 
Welch commanding, on the 29th day of September, 1861 ; was mustered 
into the service of the United States on the 18th day of October at Camp 
Curtin, Harrisburg, Penn'a; started immediately for the front ; was on 
duty in Maryland till December, 186 1, when the Regiment was sent to 
Hilton Head, S. C. ; was doing guard duty along the coast during the 
winter of 1861-62. On James Island, S. C, on June loth, with 46 men, 
repulsed three charges of rebels, 6 regiments of infantry, 1 * regiment of 
cavalry, and two batteries. This was the first battle of the 45th Regiment; 
Another battle June 13, 1862. South Mountain and Antietam, Md., Sep- 
tember 14 and 17, 1862; Fredericksburg, Va., December 12 and 13, 1862; 
Newport News in February, 1863 ; in Kentucky in March, 1863 ; Siege 
of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18th to July 4, 1863 ; Jackson, Miss., July 
loth to 29, 1863 ; again to Vicksburg, Miss., where, being taken sick, he 
was sent to general hospital at Camp Denison, Ohio, about August 1, 1863 ; 
was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps about December, 1863, and 
was detailed as Ward Master till mustered out at Cincinnati, Ohio, Octo- 
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John A. Brimmer enlisted at Elkland, Penn'a, in Captain R. T. 
Wood's Company "L," 2d Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Cavalry, on 
the 2d day of December, 1861 ; was mustered into the service of the 
United States on the 2d day of February, 1862, at Philadelphia, Penn'a. 
Re-enlisted in the field in the same Company, (now commanded by Cap- 
tain C. R. Taylor) and Regiment on the 18th day of March, 1864; was 
mustered out of the service in accordance with Special Order No. 44, 
Cavalry Headquarters. He participated in the following named battles : 
Wolftown, Va., August 2, 1862 ; Slaughter Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862; 
Second Bull Run August 28 and 30, 1862; New Baltimore, Va., Novem- 
ber 5, 1862; Little Washington, Va., Nov. 15, 1862; Berryville, Va., 
December 1, 1862; Occoquan, Va., December 28, 1862; Gloucester 
Point, Va., February 10, 1863; Frying Pan, June 4, 1863; Gettysburg, 
Penn'a, July 2 and 3, 1863; Culpepper, Va., October 12 and 13, 1863; 
Bristow Station, Va., October 14, 1863 ; Brentsville, Va., October, 1863; 
Beverly Ford, Va., October 22, 1863 ; Brandy Station, Va., November 8, 
1863; Rappahannock, Va., November 7, 1863; Mine Run, Va., Novem- 
ber 26th to December 2, 1863; Todd's Tavern, Va., May 8, 1864 ; Beaver 
Dam Station, Va., May 9, 1864; Meadow Bridge, Va., May 12, 1864; 
Howe's Shop, Va., May 28th to June 2, 1864 ; Trevillean Station, Va. 
June 11, and 12, 1864; White House Landing, Va., June 21, 1864; St' 
Mary's Church, Va., June 24, 1864; Jerusalem Plank Road, Va., July 
12, 1864; Deep Bottom, Va.,July 21, 27, and 28, 1864; Lee's Mills, Va., 
July 30, 1864; Deep Bottom, Va., August 14 to 19, 1864; Ream's 
Station, Va., August 22 to 25, 1864; Arthur's Swamp, Va., August 29, 
and 30, 1864; Boydton, Va., October 8, 1864; Hatcher's Run, Va., De- 
cember 8, 1864; Hatcher's Run, Va., February 5 and 7, 1865; Fort 
Stedman, Va., March 25, 1865 ; Dinwiddie Court House, Va., March 
31, 1865 ; Fall of Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865 ; Appomattox, Va., April 
9, 1865. 

George W. Buckbee enlisted at Tioga, Penn'a, on the 8th day of 
March, 1864, in Company " H," 45th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Was in 
the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; Spottsylvania, Va.,Mayi2, 
1864; at Poe River, Va., May 22, 1864; at the crossing of the North 
Anna River, May 24, 1864; was wounded at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 
1864, and was dicharged at Pittsburgh, Penn'a, on the 2d day of February, 
1865. 

Leverne L. Kimball enlisted at Addison, N. Y., in Captain Henry 
Baldwin's Company " E," 34th Regiment, New York Volunteers, in May 
1861, and was mustered into the service of the United States at Albany, 
N. Y., a month later. Was at Washington, D. C, July 21, 1861. Was 
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1861 ; came to Washington, D. C, in March, 1862, and was discharged 
on Surgeon's certificate of disability the same month. 

■Charles K. Cameron enlisted January 31, 1863, in Captain S. A. Wall- 
ing's Company " I," 161st Regiment, N. Y. Vols., Colonel G. T. Har- 
rower commanding. Was in Washington, D. C, January 15, 1864; in 
New Orleans, La., one month later ; battle of Brazier City one week later • 
Morganzia Bend, Atchafalaya, La., July 28, 1864; was in the Red River 
campaign, Sabine Cross, La., April 8, 1864; Pleasant Hill, La., April 9, 
1864; Cane River Crossing, April 23 and 24, 1864; Markville Plains, 
La., May 14 and 16, 1864; Siege of Mobile, Alabama, March 26 to April 
9, 1865. Was wounded by a tackle block which hit him on the head 
while lifting a gun (weight 13 tons 800 pounds) out of the hold of a ves- 
sel; thence to Key West, Fla., and Tallahasse, Fla., where he was dis- 
charged on the 2 1 st day of November, 1865. 

Abijah Kizer was mustered into the service of the United States Sep- 
tember 1, 1864, in Captain R.T.Wood's Company "H," 207th Regi- 
ment, Pnnnsylvania Vols. Was promoted to Sergeant and served in atf 
the campaigns in which the Regiment was engaged and was discharged 
by reason of expiration of period of enlistment on the 31st day of May, 
1865. 

Eleazer Albee was mustered into the service of the United States as 
a private in Company "A," 50th Engineers, N. Y. Volunteers, August 9, 
1864; was in the Army of the Potomac; served in the regiment till the 
close of the war, and was mustered out of the service on the 13th day 
of June, 1865, by reason of Special Order No. 142, from Head Quarters 
A. C. 

Austin Flanders enlisted at Osceola, Tioga county, Pa., on the 9th 
day of August, 1862, in Capt. Mooney's Company "B," 136th Regiment, 
Pa. Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the service of the United 
States at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pa., to date from enrollment. From 
thence to Washington, D. C, Fort Lincoln, for about four weeks. Re- 
ceived an injury by falling while on the march on a corduroy road near 
Chain Bridge about October 15, 1862, and was sent to General Hospital at 
Frederick, Md. Returned to the Regiment Feb. 22, 1863. Was at the 
battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 1 to 5, 1863. Mustered out of the 
service on account of expiration of term of enlistment, May 29, 1863. 

Richard Smith enlisted at Williamsburg, N. Y., on the 8th day of 
July, 1864, in Company " E," 77th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, and was 
mustered into the service of the United States at Harts Island, New York 
Harbor, the next day. Came to City Point, Va., and in front of Peters- 
burg, Va., about the 1st day of August, 1864. Was at the battle of Cedar 
Creek, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley, October 19, 1864. Was sent to 



48 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

the General Hospital at Alexandria, Va., soon after, and rejoined his reg- 
iment in front of Petersburg, Va., in January, 1865. Was on picket duty 
in the winter, and shared in the campaign against Petersburg and Rich- 
mond in the spring at the close of the war. Was mustered out of the 
service at Albany, N. Y., July 5, 1865. 

Rev. Stephen M. Dayton enlisted at Wellsville, N. Y., in Capt. 
Moses Stephen's Company "D," 13th N. Y., Heavy Artillery, on the 
13th day of June, 1863. Was present and participated in all the cam- 
paigns, battles, marches and skirmishes in which his regiment and com- 
pany were engaged, never losing a day by sickness. Was thoroughly 
schooled in the instruction of heavy artillery practice and in the Ordnance 
Department at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, under officers of thirty 
years' experience. Was mustered out of the service with his company and 
regiment by reason of close of the war August 24, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Nicholas Kizer enlisted at Wellsboro, Tioga county, Pa., in July, 
1862, in Captain Alfred J. Sofield's Company "A," 149th Regiment, Pa. 
Vols. (New Bucktails), and was mustered into the service of the United 
Siates at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pa., on the 8th day of August, 1862. 
Went to Washington, D. C, one month later, and to Belle Plain, Va., in 
February, 1863. Was at the battle of Chancelorsville, Va., May 1st to 
5th, 1863 ; Gettysburg, Pa., July 1st, 2d and 3d, 1863, where he received 
an injury from a fall during a charge; was on detached service on account 
of the injury till the muster-out of the regiment. He was mustered out 
June 24, 1865. 

Frank I. Miles enlisted and was mustered into the service of the 
United States August 9, 1862, in Captain Mooney's Company "B," 136th 
Regiment, Pa. Vols.; served with the regiment and company during the 
winter, and was discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability March 4, 
1863. 

John Lynch enlisted at Hartford, Conn., on the 15th day of April, 
1864, in Company " F," 1st Regiment, Conn. Cav. Vols. Served in 1st 
Brigade, 3d Division, Gen. Custer's command, Army of the Potomac. 
Was in the battles of Winchester, Va., July 20, 1864; Snicker's Gap, July 
17, 1864; Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864; Five Forks, Va., April 
1, 1865; Harper's Farm, Va., April 6, 1865 ; Appomattox Court House, 
Va., April 9, 1865, and was mustered out of the service with his regiment 
at Washington, D. C, August 2, 1865. 

Truman B. Foote enlisted at Addison, N. Y., August 21, 1862, in 
Company " G," 141st Regiment, N. Y. Vols., to serve three years or dur- 
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and was sent to the hospital ; was in the hospital about six months ; was 
discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability March 24, 1864. 

George Mack enlisted at Addison, N. Y., in Captain H. W. Sanford's 
Company " G," 2d Regiment, N. Y. Vet. Cav., on the 15th day of July, 
1863. Went to Camp Stoneman, Washington, D. C, about November 1, 
1863; thence to New Orleans, La., February 1, 1864; was on the Red 
River expedition two weeks later; battle of Henderson Hills, La., March 
21, 1864; skirmished from there to Pleasant Hill, La., till April 9, 1864; 
(on the retreat) Cane River, La., April 24, 1864; Yellow Bayou, La., 
May 10,1864; Marksville Plains, La., May 14, 1864; Morganzia, La., 
May 1 8th to 30th, 1864; was sent to Marine General Hospital, New Or- 
leans, La., July 6, 1864; went home on furlough, August 1, 1864; rejoin- 
ed the regiment and company in June, 1865; was mustered out of the 
service with the regiment at Talladaga, Alabama, November 8, 1865, by 
reason of expiration of term of service. 

John Hawe enlisted at Elkland, Pa , under R. T. Wood, about the 
26th day of April, 1861 ; the next day went to Lawrenceville and joined 
Captain Holland's Company "A," 1st Pa. Rifles; was mustered into the 
service of the Ignited States at Harrisburg, Pa., about the 15th of June, 
1 86 1 ; moved to New Creek, W. V,; was under the command of General 
George B. McClellan; came back to Harrisburg, Pa , again in the fall 
of 1861. The regiment was assigned to Gen. Banks's command at Berlin, 
Md.; was on duty till the regiment was organized with the Pa. Reserves 
in the winter of 1861-2; was actively engaged at Drainsville, Va., Dec. 
30, 1861 ; was discharged from the service on Surgeon's certificate of dis- 
ability May 17, 1862; was made Corporal with the 1st Rifles Bucktails 
when the company was organized in tbe spring of 1861, and promoted to 
Sergeant in Dec, 1861 ; came home but returned to Washington, D. C, 
the last of June, 1862; again enlisted in Company "L," 2d Regiment, Pa. 
Cavalry ; was with the regiment in all its service, with the rank of Sergeant 
from the first; was taken prisoner of war at the battle at Occoquan Creek, 
Va., December 28, 1862; was sent to Libby Prison, at Richmond, Va.; was 
there about three weeks; was parolled and removed to parol Camp at 
Annapolis, Md., and was exchanged about June 15, 1863, and joined the 
regiment at Fairfax Court House, Va.; served in all the campaigns, bat- 
tles, skirmishes, &c, and was discharged with the regiment at Cloud's 
Mills, Va., May 31, 1865, by reason of the close of the war. 

Sylvester Tinney enlisted at Elmira, N. Y., August 25, 1862, and was 
mustered into the service of the United States at Elmira, N. Y., September 
12, 1862, in Captain D. N. Aldrich's Company "G," 141st N. Y. Vols., 
Colonel Hathaway commanding. Went into camp at Laurel, Md., and 
was on duty during the following winter there and at Annapolis Junction, 



50 OSCEOLA IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

Md ; Miner's Hill and Hunter's Chapel, District of Columbia. April 17, 
1863, broke camp for summer campaign; was at Norfolk, Suffolk, For- 
tress Monroe, Yorktown, White House Landing (campaign of 1863), 
Washington, D. C, Berlin, Md., thence to Warrenton Junction ; was sent 
to Harwood General Hospital, Washington, D. C, August 19, 1863; re- 
joined the Regiment at Wauhatchie Valley, Tenn.; at the foot of Lookout 
Mountain on the 6th day of January, 1864; broke camp at Shellmond, 
Tenn., May 2, 1864; was engaged at Buzzard's Roost Gap, Ga., May 8, 
1864; Dalton, Ga., May 9, 1864; Resaca, Ga.,May 14th and 15th, 1864; 
Cassville, Ga., May 19th to 22d, 1864; from May 25th to June 5th, was 
at Dallas, Burnt-Hickory, Altoona Hills, New Hope Church, Pumpkin- 
vine Creek; Kenesaw Mountain, June 10, 1864; Culp's House, Ga., June 
22, 1864; Marietta, Ga., July 3d and 4th, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, Ga., 
July 19th and 20th, 1864; Siege of Atlanta, Ga., July 21st to September 
2d, 1864. From Atlanta, Ga., marched 576 miles in 67 days, skirmishing 
with the enemy a good part of the time; siege of Savannah, Ga., from Dec. 
10th to 2ist, 1864; thence marched north through South Carolina to North 
Carolina, halting at Raleigh, on to Richmond, Va.; thence marched to 
Washington, D. C, and was mustered out of the service with the regiment, 
June 8, 1865. 

Asaph Johnson, mustered into the service of the U. S. September 7, 
1861, in Company " B," 86th Regiment, N. Y. Vols. (Steuben Rangers). 
Served in the campaigns of the regiment ; was in the Army of the Potomac; 
re-enlisted in the field in same company and regiment and discharged after 
nearly four years' service, on the 27th day of June, 1865, in accordance 
with General Order No. 158, Army of the Potomac. 

George Heysham enlisted October 16, 1861, in Capt. R. T. Wood's 
Company " L," 2d Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was discharged 
on surgeon's certificate of disability August 24, 1863. 

Surgeon William T. Humphrey, mustered as Assistant Surgeon of 42d 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, or 1st Rifles Pennsylvania Reserve 
Veteran Corps, better known as the "Bucktails," June 2.\, 1861. Pro- 
moted to Surgeon 149th Regiment Pa., Vols. September 5, 1862. Ap- 
pointed Brigade Surgeon 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 1st Army Corps in 
April, 1863; Surgeon in Chief 3d Divison, 1st Army Corps in May, 1863. 
Continued on the staff of Gen. Doubleday, acting as Medical Director 
while Gen. Doubleday had command of the corps after Gen. Reynolds 
was killed at Gettysburg, Pa. During the battle Dr. Humphrey had his 
hospital in the Catholic church, and when the town was captured by the 
rebels on the first day of the battle he, with his sick and wounded, was 
taken prisoner of war. The rebels despoiled him of his horse and saddle, 
his operating case of instruments and medical stores. While the wounded 



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soldiers under his charge did not occupy his attention he watched the vary- 
ing fortunes of the battle from the belfry of his church-hospital. As he 
was a prisoner the continued slaughter gave him no additional labor. On 
the afternoon of the third day of the battle, in company with a rebel Major, 
he beheld from his tower of observation the terrible cannonade and the 
charge of Picket's division, the last blow from the concentrated might of 
the rebel army. He saw the rebels hurled back in confusion from the 
Union lines. It was hard for him to conceal his exultation. The rebel 
Major did not attempt to conceal his chagrin, but poured out volleys of 
oaths and maledictions upon the heads of the despised Yankee conquerors. 
The doctor was re-captured the next day when the town was re-occupied 
by the Union troops. He had charge of the Division Hospital during the 
winter of 1863-4 at Culpepper, Va. He was with the Army of the Poto- 
mac and participated in all the battles except South Mountain and Antie- 
tam (at which time he was absent sick) from the commencement of the war 
till January 17, 1865, when his health failed and he was mustered out, 
near Petersburg, Va. 

James Freeland was mustered in in August, 1862, as a private of Com- 
pany " H," 161st Regiment, N. Y. Vols. Served with his company and 
regiment till the close of the war, and was mustered out of the service with 
his regiment June 17, 1865. 

Hiram Blend was mustered into the service of the United States Jan- 
uary 4, 1864, in Company "G," 2d N. Y. Cavalry. Served in the De- 
partment of the Gulf at New Orleans, La.; on the Red River Expedition, 
and at Mobile, Ala., and was mustered out of the service on the 8th day of 
November, 1865. 

Joel Kizer enlisted and was mustered into the service of the United 
States in Captain C. R. Taylor's Company " L," 2d Pa. Cavalry, on the 
27th day of February, 1864. Served in all the campaigns of the regiment 
during 1864-5 till the breaking down of the Rebellion, by Lee's surrender 
at Appomattox. Was consolidated with the 20th Pa. Cavalry June 17, 
1865, forming the 1st Regiment Pa. Mounted Volunteers, and was mustered 
out of the service at Cloud's Mills, Va. (in accordance with Special Order 
No. 44, Cavalry Corps Headquarters) on the 20th day of July, 1865. 

Robert McCann was mustered into the service of the United States in 
Company "H," 189th N. Y. Vols. July 15th, 1864. Was promoted to 
Sergeant, and was mustered out of the service May 30, 1865, by reason of 
close of the war. 

Benjamin F. Colvin enlisted and was mustered into the service of the 
United States on the 31st day of January, 1862, as private in Company 
" K," 1 1 ith Regiment Pa. Vols., for a period of three years. Served till the 
expiration of his term of enlistment and was discharged from the United 
States service on the 31st day of January, 1865. 



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Theodore Doan was mustered into the service of the United States as 
a private of Company " H," 207th Regiment Pa. Vols., on the 1st day of 
September, 1864. Served with the regiment and company until the close 
of the war and was mustered out of the service June 24, 1865. 

Israel Boyer was mustered into the service of the United States 
August 21, 1862. Was promoted to Corporal and discharged by reason of 
close of the war, June 8, 1865. 

Augustus Cadugan enlisted at Buffalo, N. Y., August 29, 1862, in 
Capt. Stover's Company "I," 116th Regiment, N. Y. Vol. Infantry. Was 
mustered into the service of the United States the same day ; came to Bal- 
timore, Md. On the 16th day of September was at Gettysburg. Thwarted 
the design of the rebel cavalry under Stewart in that direction ; returned to 
Baltimore. On the last of November went with the Banks Expedition to 
the Department of the Gulf; was in the storm off Cape Hatteras, where 
the fleet was scattered — some disabled, others driven back; landed at 
Ship Island in December, 1862; was at New Orleans the last of the 
month, and at Baton Rouge, La., in February; May 21 engaged the rebels 
at White Store Plains ; was one of a " forlorn hope " at the attack on Port 
Hudson, May 21, 1863, led by the Lieutenant Colonel of the 48th Mass. 
and Lieutenant Morgan of 116th N. Y. Vols.; again at Port Hudson, June 
14; went to Donaldsonville, La., July 10 ; at Bayou la Fouche, or Cox's 
Plantation, the 14th, where he received a minie ball in the foot; he 
crawled away behind a building and dressed the wound with some linen 
his mother gave him when he left home and which he had carried in the 
pocket of his cartridge box, with fond recollections of home and the 
mother who had since passed on before; was soon after taken prisoner, 
but was left on the field and again received within our lines ; on the 10th 
of August, 1863, his right foot was amputated above the ankle at Baton 
Rouge, La., the attempt to save the foot being unsuccessful. He was dis- 
charged on the 19th day of September, 1863, as the result of a personal' 
appeal to Gen. Banks by his father, who had, on the news that his boy 
was wounded, left his home in Western New York and hastened to him ; 
returned home with him in October, 1863. 

Walter Pease enlisted and was mustered into the service of the United 
States on the 25th day of July, 1864, in Company " D," 207th Regiment, 
Pa. Vols. Was discharged on surgeon's certificate of disability January 
28, 1S65. 

W. I. Radiker enlisted as a recruit in Captain C. R. Taylor's Com- 
pany " L," 2d Regiment Pa. Cavalry Vols., for the period of three years 
or during the war, on the 23d day of February, 1864. Served till the 
close of the war and was mustered out of the United States service at 
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